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M E B OO HEY!

"Mabuhay" is our way of celebrating a moment. It easily escapes from us into the air to punctuate jubilation. I still have to hear it in a funeral which I guess is quite fitting too as a send-off message to the dearly departed into the afterlife. "Buhay" is life therefore, "Mabuhay" also applies to the afterlife! Anyway... if you happen to be brought here by any eventuality or a misclick or link, allow me to say M A B U H A Y! Welcome to THIRD WORLD LIVING! It is just about anything thirdy . Actually this is really an old concept I cooked up somethime in the early 80s I thought of as vignettes to be compiled as a book but then life got quite complicated that it had to settle for the back burner of a very dirty kitchen somewhere away from civilization.
When I decided that ALIWAN AVENUE [my blog at wordpress for almost 8 years] had reached a level where I wasn't quite excited to freshen it up as I used to; I dug up my thoughts if there were still things that were relevant inspiteof the fleeting timelines of my life; THIRD WORLD LIVING popped up! I am very third world actually. To hatch a nerve and decide to sing again as a torch singer is very third world. Had I been in the first world I would have been famous when I was younger. Now edging into my 59th year [this August 30] in this planet, I feel that reviving a concept that seemingly is negative in context; I own to its destiny and the joy I surely am gonna have posting matters that substantiate the real meaning of THIRD WORLD LIVING! Join me if you must in a journey to south of somewhere... north of nowhere...

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